Florida No. 12 in federal biotech grants

Uncle Sam is doling out billions in biotech research money thanks to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, and the money has begun to trickle into Florida universities and research institutes.

Florida ranks 12th in stimulus grants from the National Institutes of Health, behind research hotbeds California, Massachusetts, Maryland and North Carolina, and not-so-hotbeds Michigan and Ohio. (See top 12 states in NIH grants below.)

Florida has spent hundreds of millions to lure Scripps Florida and Max Planck Florida in Jupiter, the Torrey Pines Institute for Molecular Studies in Port St. Lucie and the Burnham Institute in Orlando. Of those names, Scripps Florida is the only institute to bring in NIH stimulus grants, and its share is about $2 million, compared to the University of Florida’s $38 million, the University of Miami’s $28 million.